Hello,
I came here by Lunduke BTW.
I just installed OpenMandriva in order to… well, get away of so much stuff going on that should not belong to computing. I have been testing the Rome rolling release so far and I kind of like the OS, except for the following issues (thank you in advance for looking at them)
OpenMandriva Lx version:
OpenMandriva Lx 25.01 (ROME) Rolling with kernel 6.12.9 desktop.
Desktop environment (KDE, LXQT…):
KDE Wayland (Plasma 6)
Description of the issue (screenshots if relevant):
1.-
Cannot install deadbeef due the following message:
[ada@R33200g ~]$ sudo dnf --refresh install deadbeef
[sudo] password for ada:
Failed to set locale, defaulting to C.UTF-8
brave 5.7 kB/s | 2.0 kB 00:00
OpenMandriva Rolling - znver1 2.4 kB/s | 2.4 kB 00:01
OpenMandriva Rolling - Extra - znver1 2.2 kB/s | 2.4 kB 00:01
OpenMandriva Rolling - Restricted - znver1 1.9 kB/s | 2.4 kB 00:01
OpenMandriva Rolling - Non-free - znver1 2.3 kB/s | 2.4 kB 00:01
Error:
Problem: conflicting requests
- nothing provides libFLAC.so.8()(64bit) needed by deadbeef-1.8.8-1.znver1 from rolling-znver1-extra
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages)
2.- os-prober takes a while to find my arch install in my other HDD, but despite
sudo update-grub2 saying that it will add it, after a reboot it cannot be found in the grub menu
3.- there is no insync client available (and I really need it to sync stuff in cloud), this works alright in both Debian and Arch, tried to install the rpm but it complains about unmeet dependencies.
[ada@R33200g Essentials]$ sudo dnf localinstall insync-dolphin-3.7.9.50368-1.noarch.rpm
Failed to set locale, defaulting to C.UTF-8
Last metadata expiration check: 0:09:02 ago on Sat Feb 8 16:26:35 2025.
Error:
Problem: conflicting requests
- nothing provides insync needed by insync-dolphin-3.7.9.50368-1.noarch from @commandline
- nothing provides insync-emblem-icons needed by insync-dolphin-3.7.9.50368-1.noarch from @commandline
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages)
4.- If using rufus, needs to be really told to the user that dd is to be used (NOT ISO MODE), otherwise fails to install.
5.- I would like to use the vanilla KDE? (the one with the big start menu) but I cannot find an easy way to do it.
Relevant informations (hardware involved, software version, logs or output…):
For this case hardware is really not important, but if you would like to know, this is a mix and max of many PC parts that I have laying around in order to test linux distros.
Ryzen R3 3200g, Radeon 6600XT, 16gb RAM.
This was really a suggestion, I have always used rufus… which I know, is windows only, but all of my isos have worked it it. Also, it also fails using ventoy (says it cannot find something related to squash… something then the installer fails)
Deadbeef is really needed for this (or any) linux distribution. It is an audio player which is oriented for audiophiles, and also allows for convertion of really rare high quality formats into others (e.g., DSD to FLAC).
I myself listen to music whenever I’m sitting in front of the PC… and this program happens to be de equivalent of foobar in windows, and that is saying a lot.
The commant grub2-install worked alright, but once again, executing sudo update-grub2 does detect arch, says that is going to add it then… nothing appears after reboot. I have my Arch install in a separate ssd and it detects OpenMandriva alright.
sudo grub2-mkconfig
sudo update-grub2
sudo grub2-install
After purposely breaking my grub config, these commands fixed it.
For deadbeef, lib64flac is the 64bit library package that it is asking for which should already be installed. I think we can ask someone to do a rebuild with that marked as the dependency.
I still don’t know what insync is so I can’t help there.
Insync is basically a sync client for google drive/one drive et all, I do not know if I can post links (https://www.insynchq.com/) It has linux support and it works nicely in Debian/Arch.
I hope I’m not suggesting to much… but having said sticky tread next to the download button would help. The idea is to make for new users to install it and to suggest the reading of the forums.
No, you are not asking too much, but it does help to put issues in separate topics. It keeps them from falling through the cracks. So, if you see one being ignored, start a new thread for it, please.
For me to use full time OpenMandriva is just the Insync and the Deadbeef topics, so far not other issues, but I’ll report something else that I might see. I even played games on steam now and the performance is rather good, not felling much difference from my arch installs.
P.D. I really really like this forums, first time I feel welcomed :).
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